Conspiracy to commit a crime in “parapolitics”. A comparative study

Abstract

The conspiracy to commit crime, whose inclusion in the foreign penal code dates from the Napoleonic times, and that has remained in the national legislation since its inscription in the first penal code of the unified Republic, has gained an unusual importance in the occasion of the cases signed as “parapolitics”, a situation whose genesis is found in the power that self-defense forces have over vast regions of the national geography.

The situation of those who survived the places and moments where self-defenses imposed themselves, and who had to bear with the ill-fated and humiliating conditions by assuming behaviors that, under normal circumstances, could not have been considered, in order to save their lives and other rights instead of a generalized and stigmatizing censorship, deserves a careful reflection within the context where they occurred. Obvious and undeniable circumstances such as the inflicted coercion of the “paramilitary” power and its effects on the community’s will, must not go unnoticed.